industrial process

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industrial process - a systematic series of mechanical or chemical operations that produce or manufacture somethingphysical process, process - a sustained phenomenon or one marked by gradual changes through a series of states; "events now in process"; "the process of calcification begins later for boys than for girls"Acheson process - an industrial process for making graphite by heating a mixture of coke and clayBessemer process - an industrial process for making steel using a Bessemer converter to blast air through molten iron and thus burning the excess carbon and impurities; the first successful method of making steel in quantity at low costcyanide process - an industrial process for extracting gold and silver by treating ore with a sodium cyanide solutionelectrostatic precipitation - a process that removes suspended dust particles from a gas by applying a high voltage electrostatic charge to the particles and collecting them on charged platesfractional process, fractionation - a process that uses heat to separate a substance into its componentsHaber process, Haber-Bosch process - an industrial process for producing ammonia from nitrogen and hydrogen by combining them under high pressure in the presence of an iron catalystSolvay process - an industrial process for producing sodium carbonate from sodium chloride and ammonia and carbon dioxide